Is Bobby Van’s Taking Over the Oak Room?

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The murals by Everett Shinn will stay.Photo: Hannah Whitaker / New York Magazine

We’re hearing that the owners of the Bobby Van’s chain — who have nine locations in New York and Washington, including five in Manhattan — will shortly take over food and beverage operations at the just-closed Oak Room in the Plaza. The restaurant, of course, closed at the end of last month on the heels of several bad reviews, a few reboots, and at least one big lawsuit.

This recently filed SLA application also appears to confirm the rumors: Notice the name “Joseph Smith,” which also appears on all of the licenses associated with Bobby Van’s. (See them here, here, here, here, and here.) And our guess is that Joseph Phair is the “P” in the name S & P Restaurant Corp, the LLC listed on the Oak Room application.